The Field Museum, #Z93658 They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified more than 100 years ago as the man-eaters of Tsavo, a vast swath of Kenya savanna ...

Patterson later wrote a book, "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures," in which he said the lions were to blame for the deaths of 135 people. According to a 2018 article ...

The man-eating lions of Tsavo, exhibited at Chicago's Field Museum since 1925, continue to captivate visitors 100 years later ...

In the late 19th century, two lions unleashed terror on the workers tasked with the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway Known as the "Man-eaters of Tsavo," this ...

So daring were the Tsavo lions that they were known to drag workers ... on foot despite the presence of the descendants of the 'man-eaters' and risking a run-in with poachers who were making ...